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Apple and the end of the headphone jack

Sep 9, 2016
Marketplace's Molly Wood on the company's new slate of products.
Apple introduced AirPods, its new wireless headphones, at a launch event on Sept. 7 in San Francisco.
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Evidence of criminal wrongdoing in Volkswagen emissions scandal, prosecutors say

Aug 16, 2016
Volkswagen's cheating scandal, home improvement chains, and black rodeo.

After Brexit vote, luring London businesses to Berlin

Jul 25, 2016
Investor thinks companies will move for access to the European single market.
Businesses could be adding their buildings to this skyline following Brexit.
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Life among the upper, upper class in Brazil

Jul 22, 2016
Journalist Alex Cuadros' book, "Brazillionaires," covers the wealthiest class in the complicated country.

A potential Italian crisis on our hands

Jul 13, 2016
Economic issues in Italy, cost-saving generic drugs, and Ireland's huge GDP surge.

Immigrants bolster Germany's workforce

Jul 13, 2016
In Germany, business and government are working to give newcomers a taste of working life.
Wasim works the line at a Mercedes plant.
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A tale of two sister cities with massively different views on Brexit

Jul 8, 2016
As part Lizzie O'Leary's Brexit travels, we visit the German sister city of St. Helens, an English town that voted to leave the EU.
Hauptbahnhof railway station in Stuttgart, Germany. 
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Understanding the pro-Brexit vote in one English town

Jul 1, 2016
Many people in St. Helens, a former industrial powerhouse, feel left behind.
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Long and Short: Brexit, the UK and the global economy

Jul 1, 2016
Marketplace's John Buckley and Paddy Hirsch go long and short on Brexit in this special edition of Long and Short.
A Brexit flotilla of fishing boats sails by the British houses of Parliament on the river Thames in London on Wednesday.
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Brexit and industry: How the EU split affects working class towns

Jul 1, 2016
In St. Helens, a town in Northern England, a majority voted Leave. How will Brexit affect them?
A woman walks past a house where 'Vote Leave' boards are displayed.
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